Bret Battey blogging sundry ideas, favorable events, works in progress, and miscellaneous solutions in digital music and video-music research and creation. I see this as a subsidiary of my web site, BatHatMedia.com.

Sunday, September 29, 2013

My audiovisual composition Clonal Colonies received First Prize last week from the Fresh Minds Festival2012-13. The festival is a public performance of audiovisual artworks by professional artists, student-curated under the direction of a multi-disciplinary team of faculty at Texas A&M University. I was honoured to be recognised along with 2nd- and 3rd-prize winners Ryo Ikeshiro and gruppoGruppo. We had an enjoyable time meeting staff and students, trying out real Texas BBQ, and having great conversations about the places where art, image, sound and science meet.

The first release of Nodewebba software is now available from BatHatMedia.com, free and open source for Macintosh and Windows.

Nodewebba brings some distinctly wild and crazy music algorithms out of the research lab and into the home and professional studio. The musician can easily create a "web" of feedback-based pattern generators, producing surprisingly fresh and dynamic interlocking melodic and rhythmic patterns for use realtime performance or for studio-based productions.